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  • Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date (Posting OnPython-List Prohibited)

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.lang.python on Thu Feb 20 04:40:34 2025
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    On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:42:23 -0500, songbird wrote:

    no need for me to print any programming books.

    I gave up on paper-based programming documentation a long time ago. There
    is way too much of it that I need, and it changes too fast. So I keep it
    all online now.
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  • From Salvador Mirzo@smirzo@example.com to comp.lang.python on Thu Feb 20 10:05:32 2025
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    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

    On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:42:23 -0500, songbird wrote:

    no need for me to print any programming books.

    I gave up on paper-based programming documentation a long time ago. There
    is way too much of it that I need, and it changes too fast. So I keep it
    all online now.

    It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen.
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.lang.python on Thu Feb 20 21:51:51 2025
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    On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:05:32 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

    It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen.

    You can’t do searches, though.
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.lang.python on Fri Feb 21 02:07:44 2025
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    On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:51:51 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:05:32 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

    It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen.

    You can’t do searches, though.

    For non-fiction a decent index does wonders. A good layout and talble of contents also helps. Decorators? Chapter 14, page 254, all you ever wanted
    to know about them.
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  • From Salvador Mirzo@smirzo@example.com to comp.lang.python on Sun Feb 23 14:04:01 2025
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    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

    On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:05:32 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

    It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen.

    You can’t do searches, though.

    That's quite right, which is why I also love to have an ebook form of
    them.
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  • From Salvador Mirzo@smirzo@example.com to comp.lang.python on Sun Feb 23 14:08:50 2025
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    rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:

    On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:51:51 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:05:32 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

    It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen.

    You can’t do searches, though.

    For non-fiction a decent index does wonders. A good layout and talble of contents also helps. Decorators? Chapter 14, page 254, all you ever wanted to know about them.

    Well said. But I still like the full-text search because very often I
    want to cite a book and I remember the wording more or less, so I'm
    looking for that exact point, which is easiest found by a full-text
    search. It's bloody useful to have an ebook form of the book. It's
    just not pleasant to read it. I like to sort of lay back to read a book
    and I can't quite do that on a desk. I don't use computers off of
    desks. I don't care for phones or tablets. Phones have a too small
    screen and tablets are too big, too warm, don't bend like paper and are
    just plain annoying, too. :) Paper is so much more concrete than a
    screen. No need to recharge them and so on. Omg, I didn't know there
    were so many reasons... Funny is that the only real reason I really
    have for no reading on-screen is that I just don't want to.
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